| This thesis draws upon Pierre Bourdieu's framework of 'practice' to theorize Activist Community Arts (ACA) as a cultural practice deeply embedded in the social and as strategies to have impacts on the social conditions of possibility for groups of social actors who are often experiencing social disadvantage (based in economic exclusions, political situation, race, gender, disability, and others). This thesis introduces ACA to a sociological audience as a new area of sociological investigation, contributes to theory on ACA and proposes that Bourdieu's framework can be extending by examining practices of cultural engagement that aim to create social change. |
